6. Conclusion
6.2 Recommendations and suggestions for further research
During my research process, through the materials I engaged with I realized that a correlation between LDS Church and queer Mormon suicides or queer Utah suicides could be shown if Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes the details regarding sexual orientation and religion of people who committed suicide. While this might conflict with some of the privacy laws in the US and might require additional consent from family members of the deceased person, it could help to demonstrate the correlation in hard data.
The Church officials can take extensive measures to prevent discrimination against its queer members within the Church contexts and encourage an effective system to address discrimination against its members who belong to vulnerable groups.
Through this study, I tried to provide an extensive background information and academic literature review on religious freedom and the right to sexuality from a human rights perspective. I connected these themes to Mormonism in order to involve human rights dynamics into the discussion. However, further studies could be improved to find a correlation between the timeline when some church policies changed and how it affected specific laws in Utah to analyse the impact of Mormonism on LGBQT+ people living in Utah through hard law.
While I provided direct discrimination examples within the Church context in the previous chapter, I also mentioned that one of the participants knows a transgender person attending the Church in a liberal US state. The participant thinks that this might not be possible to do for a
transgender person in Utah and Mormonism should be the same in every part of the world. A further research could be done to compare the lives of queer Mormons or Exmormon of the Church in specific conservative states and liberal states. Another research topic could be on ExMormons living in different part of the world. I limited my research to ExMormons in the USA, but some ExMormons who are not US residents or citizens wanted to take part in the research. Therefore, it demonstrated that field research in other parts of the world on ExMormons could be carried out. Such research could use the theories of Universalism and Cultural Relativism considering that there are differences even within the USA.
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